Our next big decisions to make were guests to invite and the caterer.  Luckily Shambhala’s limit is 99 people so we were able to keep the celebration a nice intimate size with about 90 people coming in the end.  Also, Shambhala has a resident caterer, Idit Oz owner of Oz Catering, who provided us with organic food including free range chicken, and in season wild salmon.

It was our intention to introduce healthy alternatives to our guests.   For desert we were able to provide an assortment of treats that were in part a healthy alternative to traditional wedding cake made by our own friends and a local raw food restaurant.  We had raw chocolates, an assortment of raw food pies, cupcakes and the groom’s mom picked her own cherries from her orchard two days before so we had fresh baked cherry pie.  We provided organic, fair trade coffee from Thanksgiving Coffee from near by Fort Bragg in Mendocino County.  The raw food pies came from a raw food restaurant near where we live, Café Gratitude.